Odyssey
a Torchwood crossover story
by RoadrunnerGER
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the related shows. I just love to play with their characters.
Summary: Investigating mysterious disappearances Team Torchwood gets abducted away from Earth. As the only one left Tosh finds help at the SGC and begins a frantic odyssey across the universe in order to save the team.
A/N: Thank you for the nice reviews. Special thanks to Galadriel und Mandassina for their support. Happy New Year! Enjoy!
Chapter 3
"Take Gray, son! Keep him safe!"
He did not want to go, even though he knew that the invaders were close. His father shoved the brothers' hands together.
"Don't go!"
"I have to get your mother!" their father shouted. "Now go! Run!"
For a few seconds he watched his father's retreating back. Only when Gray tugged on his hand he turned and ran.
They were not the only ones. A whole bunch of people was fleeing frantically into the dunes, searching for cover or just trying to get away.
He spotted a hiding place, a hole beneath the roots of a big bush. If they could just get there. Run! Run faster! Faster! Faster! He slid under the cover of the leaves and pressed into the hollow. When he reached out to pull his little brother in, too, he realized that Gray was gone.
His hand must've slipped out of mine, he thought miserably.
When Jack now felt Ianto's hand slide out of his grip he thought his heart would stop and his blood would freeze. Skidding to a halt, making the sand under his boots spray up, he spun around, bringing his weapon up.
There were two targets and Jack fired without hesitation, the bullets finding their ways into the attackers' chests...
…where they did not hit and kill thanks to the armour they wore.
"Shit!" Jack yelled. "Ianto? Ianto get up!"
Panic tightened Jack's chest. The young Welshman did not move. For all Jack knew he was unconscious. Glancing over his shoulder Jack saw Toshiko slow down as well.
"Run!" he shouted.
With a scream of rage and desperation Jack launched himself at the attackers, hoping that Toshiko would get away and that he could take down the enemies.
It was an uneven fight. Jack was hit hard and shoved aside. He stumbled and went down in the sand.
Noooo!
Seeing that one of the assailants grabbed for Ianto Jack scrambled to his feet and lunged at the other adversary.
Then everything vanished in a flash of light.
xXx
In her peripheral vision Toshiko noticed the flash of light behind her and spun around.
The beach was empty.
"What…?" she gasped, slowing to a halt.
Panting she stood and stared on the spot where the sand was scuffed up.
The spot where Jack and Ianto had been.
The spot from where they were taken.
"No," she moaned as realization slowly settled in. "No. That can't be. Jack! Ianto!"
Her shouts died away unheard.
Reaching up she activated her earpiece.
"Gwen? Owen?"
She got no reply.
"Gwen? Can you hear me? Owen! Where are you?" Still no one answered and Toshiko became angry, "Bugger! Owen! This is no joke! Answer me!"
Nothing.
"Owen! Gwen!"
Toshiko could try as often as she liked, she knew she would not get an answer. Choked up with anxiety she ran back to the SUV. Climbing in on the back seat she fired up the computer and logged into the police radio.
"Radio discipline, 29-10," someone from despatch said.
"I'm not making things up," the unfortunate officer replied. "There were three ships in the sky! UFOs! They landed in the park and strange people got out, shooting at people and then they just vanished! Flashes of light and they were gone. Then they flew away!"
"Quit occupying the frequency with that bollocks and come back to headquarters!"
Toshiko had heard enough. With a sinking feeling in her gut she climbed into the driver's seat. Before she could start it she had to adjust the seat manually because the two positioning presets were set for the men who were much taller. Once she could comfortable reach the pedals she drove the SUV off the beach and back into Cardiff's centre. When she pulled the car over next to the park she spotted Owen's BMW.
"Owen?" she tried once more her earpiece. "Owen answer me! Owen!"
Still there was no response.
"Gwen? Gwen do you hear me? This isn't funny, guys. C'mon! Speak to me!"
As she tried to reach her team mates she rushed along the sidewalk to the park entrance and into the park.
Nothing.
There was no sign of the former police constable and the doctor. Toshiko ran further down the path but found no one at all. The park seemed to be vacant.
"Gwen?" she shouted.
Nothing.
Straining to listen to any sound Toshiko noticed that not even birds were singing. It was unnaturally silent in the park.
"Where are they?" she murmured to herself. "Gwen, Owen… Ianto! Jack!"
She got her mobile phone out and dialled the number of the police headquarters, demanding to speak to PC Davidson.
"Andy?" she called out when he answered. "This is Toshiko Sato, Gwen's colleague. Did you hear anything from Gwen in the last half hour?"
"No," he replied. "I'm sorry, but we're pretty busy handling all the people reporting the UFO sightings. You Torchwood lot don't know anything about those ships the people claim to have seen?"
"No," Toshiko said, feeling horrible.
"Didn't think so," Andy huffed and quit the call.
Toshiko snapped her phone shut. Helplessly she stood in the empty park. What had happened to her team mates? She was too scared to admit that she had a good idea of what had happened.
They had been shot with some kind of stunner and were transported off with an energy beam. The transporter must have been the origin of the flash of light that went along the vanishing of the people.
Toshiko was scared to death by the thought that their whole team had been abducted by aliens. She knew that she had to find them.
She did not know how to do that.
tbc…